What are the major differences between folk-country and pop music?
Select one of the two topics below. Respond to the topic with a minimum of 400 words and no more than 500 words. Submit your answers in one document.1. Trace the history of jazz from its root to the present. Include specific examples.2. What are the major differences between folk-country and pop music? Include a minimum of three specific examples.Be sure to use complete sentences, proper grammar, and run spell check on your work. Answer all parts of the topic. You are encouraged to use references in addition to the text. Be sure to list all the references used to complete your work. Use only professional references in MLA style. (DO NOT use a nonacademic source like Wikipedia.) Use the Writing Rubric as a guide to your writing.Do not copy and paste information directly from the Internet this includes charts, graphs, or pictures without giving full credit to the source. If in doubt, do not use it. Your work should use the following guidelines:1? margin all aroundDouble spacedFont size no larger than 12Header which includes:HUMA1315 Fine Arts AppreciationWriting Assignment 2Name
report 3 major relevant findings revealed by this data.
· You will be preparing tables, figures, or graphs (your choice) to address specific queries. Imagine these queries have come from your supervisor, who plans to present the work to officials with the Department of Corrections in a state of the correctional state address. · Be sure to provide a title for each table, graph, or figure.Use ONLY the following site and provided files to pull data from!https://nicic.gov/state-statistics/2017/florida-20171. Compare the prison population of Florida with 2 states, each of which are from different regions of the country (e.g., Northeast, Midwest, Southwest, West Coast). Provide 5 years of the most recent data available. Underneath your graph, table, or figure, report 3 major relevant findings revealed by this data. 2. Using 2017 data only, show differences in the use of capital punishment for 4 states from 4 different regions of the country (e.g., Northeast, Midwest, Southwest, West Coast). Specifically, for these 4 states, report the number of people under sentence of death, number of executions, and racial composition of death row inmates. Underneath your graph, table, or figure, report 3 major relevant findings revealed by this data. 3. Using the most recent data available, report the size of the correctional system (number of facilities per state), incarceration rate and prison population, correctional system budget costs, and crime rate associated with 3 states. You may pick any 3 states, but in reporting the 3 major relevant findings, include your rationale for selecting these 3 states. Again, present the data in a graph, table or figure form.
generate an intelligence research question and produce a literature review and annotated bibliography.
For this assignment, your task is to generate an intelligence research question and produce a literature review and annotated bibliography. Select an intelligence topic of your choice that calls for either an explanatory study (why question) or predictive study (what will happen question). Once you have developed your research question, you will conduct a literature review and produce an annotated bibliography (example attached). General Requirements1. Document Format.a. MS Word documentb. One-inch (1?) marginsc. Times New Roman fontd. Twelve (12) pitche. Not including your title page, this assignment should be 4 pages. This does include your annotated bibliography.f. Double space, except for your bibliographys citations (see example below).2. Citation Format: The Chicago Manual of Style (CMS). As stated in the Academic Integrity Briefings, information taken directly from another source must be placed in quotations and cited following the CMS format contained in the week one lessons folder. You must cite all other information from your sources, even if you do not quote directly. DIRECT QUOTING SHOULD BE KEPT TO A MINIMUM.3. Grading is based on the attached rubric.You should include the following elements in your paperTitle Page Section I: Introduction In your introduction, you will give the background of your research topic. What is the broader intelligence issue? Why should you reader care about this topic? What are the implications for US national security? Your specific research question will be an element of this larger problem.*Note: An intelligence issue is NOT the evaluation of US policy or process. An intelligence issue is something that the IC researches to understand an adversary. For example, will North Korea invade South Korea or will Iran develop a nuclear weapons capability.Section II: The Research Question In this section, you should address your specific research question. This section should include:a) Your research questionb) What type of study is this (explanatory or predictive)?c) What is the dependent variable (refer to your week 1 reading)?d) What are the independent variables (refer to your week 1 reading)?e) Are there obvious answers to your specific research question? What are they?f) Short discussion of how you developed this question and why it should be of interest to the Intelligence Community.Section III: Related Literature Provide current state of our accumulated knowledge as it relates to your specific research question. This section should answer whether or not there is an accumulated body of scholarship on this issue. Is this a new issue or have scholars and analysts been studying it for years? What kind of literature is out there? Are there leading researchers/analysts on this topic? Who are they? If this is a new issue, what challenges will that present to your research?Section IV: Annotated Bibliography. While conducting your literature review, you will also build an annotated bibliography. Do this by providing an annotated bibliography of at least five sources you would use to answer your research question. These sources should include books, journals and other scholarly articles. In the annotation include what information the source provides to your research question. Use the Chicago style of annotation for this and all assignments in this course. Formatting counts. See the attached example.An annotated bibliography is a list of sources on a certain topic with a brief description of each source. Each entry in an annotated bibliography should include all the information normally included in a list of works cited. For instance, the citation for a book would include the title, author, publisher, place of publication, and year of publication.The bibliographic information is followed by an annotation, which can be a few sentences or a lengthy paragraph that describes the contents of the source and provides a brief explanation of its relevance to your research. For this assignment, your annotations should be a minimum of 5 sentences.
post your comments on why we should or shouldnt use COTS items?
After reviewing this weeks material, especially the section on commercial off the shelf (COTS) equipment, post your comments on why we should or shouldnt use COTS items? Also, after reviewing the previous 5 weeks worth of material, what are some areas that COTS equipment should be used?
What role do political protests play in policy making or policy changing?
What role do political protests play in policy making or policy changing? For this assignment, you are going to read about and research both historical and modern day political protests and then explain how these protests may impact decision-making in the government or social change. You will need to through the web links provided, and then do any extra research necessary to answer the questions below in essay format:https://www.bustle.com/p/do-political-protests-actually-change-anything-29952https://www.businessinsider.com/largest-marches-us-history-2017-1#the-million-woman-march-in-philadelphia-pennsylvania-october-25-1997-7https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/05/31/these-are-the-four-largest-protests-since-trump-was-inaugurated/?noredirect=onhttps://www.businessinsider.com/most-googled-political-protests-2017-121.) After reading about the most influential protests from past and present, do you see any striking similarities between them? Any differences in the way they were conducted or their effectiveness? How does the government classify the difference between a protest group, political violence, and a terrorist organization?2.) What significant protests are missing from these lists? In light of history repeating itself, what protests do we see being reinvented as a result of changes not being made fast enough or for problems that were not resolved in the past?3.) Do you believe that most protests are more effective in making a social change versus a political one? Explain.4.) Are protests effective in helping lawmakers more quickly act on issues simmering in society? Why or why not? Does the emotionality of political violence of terrorist organization activity prompt lawmakers to act faster than with peaceful protests? Why or why not?5.) How has technology impacted the need for physical protesting? Do you think social media protesting is as effective as physically showing up? Explain,6.) Are there any issues in our country today that would tempt you to get involved with a protest? What issue and why? Would you be more willing to protest online versus in person?This assignment must follow MLA guidelines, be typed in Times New Roman, 12 pt. font, and be a minimum of 1000 words with a works cited page. The works cited are not included in the minimum word count. Any articles/web links given in the assignment prompt MUST be cited in your paper and works cited. Any additional research must be cited as well.
Evaluate the effectiveness of process management in your organization.
Design:Ensuring that the inputs to the process, such as materials, technology, work methods, and a trained workforce, are adequate, and that the process can achieve its requirements.Control:Maintaining consistency in output by assessing performance and taking corrective action when necessary.Improvement:Continually seeking to achieve higher levels of performance in the process, such as reduced variation, higher yields, fewer defects and errors, smaller cycle times, and so on.For this assignment, you will select a service or product in your organization or an organization of your choice, and write a paper discussing the process management activities that are involved.In your paper,Evaluate the effectiveness of process management in your organization.Suggest potential improvements to improve process management within your organization.Describe the specific steps in the process and their sequence.Provide a map of the process and the sequenced steps, along with standard operating procedures and work instructions.The Recommendations for Improvement paperMust be three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Style (Links to an external site.) as outlined in the Writing Centers APA Formatting for Microsoft Word (Links to an external site.) resource.Must include a separate title page or slide with the following:Title of paper in bold fontSpace should be between title and the rest of the information on the title pageStudents nameName of institution (University of Arizona Global Campus)Course name and numberInstructors nameDue dateMust utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.Must use at least three scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
Discuss at least two major challenges you believe public policy analysts face in todays political environment and propose at least one way to deal with each challenge.
Challenges Please respond to the following:Discuss at least two major challenges you believe public policy analysts face in todays political environment and propose at least one way to deal with each challenge.Discuss at least two major challenges you believe public policy analysts will face in the next 10 to 20 years and propose at least one way to deal with each challenge.
Identify what went right with the disaster response.
Preparedness, Response, and RecoveryOver the last couple years it seems the number and severity of natural disasters has markedly increased. Since the low point of the response to Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent legislation to fix the federal response to disasters, is the Department of Homeland Security doing better in its coordinated responses? Is the current National Response Framework working? How do we balance the response and the need for controlling budget costs? In this assignment select one national level response to a hurricane, wild fire, or other natural hazard to evaluate the preparedness, response, and recovery efforts to the event. Your response should be written from a local, state, or federal perspective. Or you may examine the response from the perspective of a not-for-profit such as the International Red Cross of the Salvation Army.To begin your research for this assignment, go to the Ashford University Library and conduct a search with the keywords Federal Response to Disasters. It is recommended that you do not use quotation marks for this search.In your paper,Summarize the natural disaster.Evaluate the response from a local, state, or federal perspective.Identify the core issues that delayed or hindered the response.Identify what went right with the disaster response.Analyze the current Department of Homeland Security processes and procedures to determine their effectiveness for similar future disasters.The Preparation, Response, and Recovery paperMust be two to three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA styleas outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.Must include a separate title page with the following:Title of paperStudents nameCourse name and numberInstructors nameDate submittedMust use at least two scholarly sources in addition to the course text.The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center
Identify the Supreme Court Justice writing the majority opinion, summarize the decision, and if applicable, summarize the concurring and dissenting opinions
Assignment DetailsThe appellate process is a cornerstone of a democratic criminal justice system. However, many people are unaware of the process that a case may undergo before it finds itself before the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). In fact, as you have read, not all cases reach the highest court in the land. In this activity, you are going to trace the path of a criminal case from the lower court by identifying the facts of the case, the ruling at the appellate court level, the key legal questions and how they relate to the Constitution, and the ruling in the case as made by the SCOTUS.Complete the following for this assignment: Use this Web site to select cases, and using the term, select 2 criminal justice-related cases that were decided within the last 3 years. You can determine that it is a criminal case by looking for either the United States or the name of a state in the case name. If you do not see the name of a state or United States in the title of the case, that means that it is a civil case. Do not select a civil case.Provide the following for each case in your own words:A summary of each case A summary of the procedural history of the case, or how it wound its way through the court system to the United States Supreme Court The key facts The appellate court decision and reasoning Identify the key legal questions or issues that were argued before the SCOTUS and the decision Identify the Supreme Court Justice writing the majority opinion, summarize the decision, and if applicable, summarize the concurring and dissenting opinions Lastly, explain whether you agree with the decision in the case, and explain why
What do you think are the two largest obstacles or challenges preventing effective multi-agency and inter-governmental collaboration for intelligence support to homeland security operations?
What do you think are the two largest obstacles or challenges preventing effective multi-agency and inter-governmental collaboration for intelligence support to homeland security operations? This question needs to be answered from two perspectives .a strategic one and a tactical one .Are there legal issues that need to be addressed that have not been? Also describe at least two solutions or effective frameworks that are being used (or that can be better employed) to overcome these obstacles and ensure effective inter and intra-agency collaboration for intelligence support to the HSE. *500 word minimum with citations and references
